Conferences

Two conferences have taken place within the European project ‘European Guidelines for Target Group Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare in Cases of Disaster – Implementation (EUTOPA-IP)’. The overall objective of EUTOPA-IP is to implement and extend the products of EUTOPA, European Guidelines for Target Group Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare. The first conference in Amsterdam, September 2010, achieved consensus on guideline headlines for uniformed services and country specific practice was discussed.

The main objective of the second conference in Cologne, April 2011, was to discuss how the TGIP relates to Multidisciplinary Guidelines (MG) of Early Intervention. Different topics were discussed, including: trauma-based psychoinformation; the concept of prognostic screening; mid-and-long-term interventions; and the approach of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).